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@ait-rh tstr latrnt @ffifh WILLIAM FLINN, OF NASHIIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE,ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND JAMES N. KENDALL, OF SAME PLACE. e

Letters .Patent No. 65,557, dated June 11, 1867.

IMPROVED TOOL-FOR CUTTING WIRES.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOMTHESE PEESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. FLINN, of Nashua, in the county ofHillsboro, and State of New Hampshire, have invented au improved RodorWire-Cutting Machine; and do hereby declare the saure to be fullydescribed in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, oi' Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. i

Figure 2, a vertical and longitudinal section.

Figure 3 is a transverse section; and f Figure 4 is a horizontal sectionof it, this latter section being-taken through two holes of itscutter-plates.

My present invention is au iuiprovelnent in wire-cutters of the kindmentioned and described in Letters Patent No. 545,520, granted to me onthe eighth dayl of MayA. D. 1866. Instead of the movable cutter-platebeing made to revolve as it does in my patented article, it and its caseare so changed in form that the movable die-plate, when moved, slidesrectilinearly in the case. The principle of invention, so far as theapplication of the die-plate and its case is concerned, is the same inmy present article as in that so patented.

y My improvement consists in arranging each pair of the cutting holes ororices of the two cutter-plates obliquely to the' faces or touchingsides of such plates, instead of at right angles therewith, as they haveheretofore been arranged. Each hole of the pair must of necessity have adiameter somewhat greater than that oi"v the rod or piece of Wire to becut by them, otherwise it would not be an easy matter to introduce ,thesaid rod or piece ofwire into and through them. Under such circumstancesit has been found that as soonas the holes are brought to bear on theWire, they will throw it intoa'position more or less oblique to thetouching faces of the two plates. The consequence is that when the wireo r rod is cut o, its end instead of being eut at right angles to theaxis of the Wire or rod will be more or less oblique thereto. To obviatethis diiiiculty, I arrange the pair of holes of the cutting-platesobliquely to the touching i'aces of the two plates, and at the properangles-therel with to cause the wire while being cut to stand at rightangles with the two plates.A i In the drawings, A denotes the ease,which is open :tt-its upper end, and is provided with elongated chamber,a, and an opening, b, extending therefrom through one sideof the case. Asteel plate, B, slides into the case and rests against a spring, C,arranged within it in the case as represented. A lever, D, provided witha. cam, b', isarrangcd on the upperpart o f the case, and so as to 4becapable of being turned on a fulcrum or pin, @going through the casetransversely. A series of holes, d al d, is bored through the plate Band the back plate e of the case, each hole in one plate having a fellowhole in` the other as represented, and the two are arranged obliquely tothe faces of the plate in manner as. exhibited in the drawings. The casehas a projection or ear,f, extending from it, such ear, when introducedbetween and held fast by the jaws of a vise, serving to retain the casein one fixed position so as to enable a person to work the lever so asto move the movable plate and cut o a wire or rod by the machine.

I claim my. improved wire or rod-cutter, made as described, viz, withcach cutting hole of each pair of such holes of the plates B and earranged obliquely to the touching faces of such plates, substantiallyas and for the purpose as hereinbefore specied. i i

' WM. H. FLINN.

Witnesses:

I. C. PUSHEE, J oHN B. BUssELL.

